Shoes Shoes and more Shoes....

So one of the things about having lots of kids, is you need to purchase lots of shoes.

It's not just enough anymore to purchase 1 pair of runners for kids...you need multiple...you know for indoor and outdoor activities, sports ect.....

Because we don't feel like spending a fortune on shoes I found these runners for $3.33 last week for one of the girls, and I'm sure that they would be fine like this...

but I decided to try something different....recently I've noticed that other bloggers are redecorating shoes like this

or this

I didn't want to start off with too big of a project...So I pulled the shoelaces off and dyed them Purple, (my first attempt with boiled food colouring and vinegar turned them fuchsia....so I boiled more water and added some acrylic paint...this worked wonderfully!)

 They took like forever to dry....so I got out my blow dryer and speed up the process :-)

Then I painted a simple design on the side of the runners using a paintbrush.  Because this is my first shoe painting, I didn't want to attempt anything really detailed :-)

While lacing them up I thought "hmm, they could use another colour"  so I added a couple of cute buttons

And tada Indoor Runners!

 ~Joyfully planning on painting/redecorating another pair of shoes...in more detail ~

~ melodiejoy ~